Keep Center Street light

After much talk about the traffic light in Canastota on the corner of Peterboro and Center streets, I’d like to put in my two cents.

Even though I don’t live in Canastota anymore it will always be my hometown, being born and brought up there. I believe the state should look at it as to howmany lives may be saved and a safety issue, not how they have to spend to replace it.

I remember in 1950 when Louie Adamo, a Canastota policeman, was killed by a trailer coming off of Center Street. Hewas directing traffic because there was no light there. It was a scene never forgotten in Canastota.

I hope the state remembers that, and leaves the light up. With all the tractor trailers that go through Canastota, it is a safety issue for old and young alike.

So, instead of doing a long study and spending so much money on it - leave the light up. After all, the taxpayers are paying for it and if they want it, it should be kept up.

Vote for Buttermann in Sept. 13 primary

Dan Buttermann is a Democrat running in the Sept. 13 primary election for New York Assembly District 121. He is a great choice to be our next representative in Albany.

He is a family man, school board member, and insurance manager from Oneonta. He and his wife, a flutist and music professor at Hartwick College, have three children. This year I have had several opportunities to meet and talk with him. Many of you have probably also met him as he has attended events several times in Oneida and nearby areas this summer. He comes here to get to understand the community and understands that to represent a community, you have to get out into that community.

Dan Buttermann’s positions align with Democratic values on issues such as support for education, access to health care, protecting the environment, economic development, and women’s equality and reproductive choice. He is also a businessman whose early experience was with his family’s small business, and whose career is now as a business unit manager at NYCM Insurance. He was elected to the school board in Oneonta in 2014 and re-elected in 2017, and serves onthe boards of several organizations there. He is smart andtakes care to understand the details of what is put before him. He has hustle andwants to put the extra mile in – sometimes literally, as for examplewhen hewent to a climate change leadership training in California this August.

The thing I like about Dan Buttermann is his vision that he should bring people together and facilitate solving problems. Dan Buttermann says he is running to represent us, and I think he would do a great job.

Sincerely,